Obsidian Mulls Over New Fallout Locations and Neverwinter Return

Sounds like a hint.

by: Luke Karmali

July 24, 2014

Obsidian has chatted about the possibility of getting involved with the Fallout franchise again, offering a list of potential settings for a future game.

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Speaking to IGN about the upcoming Pillars of Eternity, Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer admitted he'd be keen to jump on board a new entry in the franchise and mulled over where he'd like it to take place.

"It’s a really fun setting and intellectual property to work with, I love doing rules and mechanics stuff and then expanding the setting is a lot of fun," he said. "I like doing stuff on the West coast because we’re close by, and that’s kind of been a tradition for the West coast developers of that stuff. I think going back to the Boneyard, LA, would be pretty cool but another area that I think Nathanial Chapman who used to work at Obsidian, he thought New Orleans would be a really cool setting for a Fallout game and I think that’d be really cool as well.

"Personally, I think there are some interesting things that could happen with Fallout in an MMO environment. There are some folks who kind of cobbled together all the Fallout 2 resources into kind of a makeshift MMO, made by fans. It was pretty cool but insane. It’s like if you take all of the most brutal aspects of Ultima Online and multiply them by five, you have that game. So I think there’s interesting potential for an online version of Fallout."

Alongside comments about a new Star Wars title like Knights of the Old Republic III, Sawyer also dropped heavy hints we'd be seeing the studio's stalwart Neverwinter franchise appear again before too long, saying: "It’d be pretty cool! Obviously there’s the Neverwinter MMO that came out but in terms of the more traditional focused game it’d be pretty cool, especially now as 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons is being released. It’d be neat to see a return to that, yep, it’d be pretty cool."